Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Dakota Man Must Pay $55,000 Restitution for Comp Fraud
Jan 26 2004 // A Mandan, N.D., man was ordered to pay $54,679 in restitution to Workforce Safety & Insurance after pleading guilty to fraud in South Central District Court Dec. 16, according to a statement released by the North...
Workers’ Comp
Jan 26 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Midlands Management Corporation is offering a workers’ compensation market. Dollars: Policy limits up to $1 million employer’s liability. Minimum premium is $3,500. Carrier: Rated...
Mission Possible: Bringing Insurers Back to Louisiana
Jan 26 2004 // If the Professional Insurance Agents of Louisiana, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Louisiana (IIABL) and Louisiana’s insurance commissioner have their way, the state will soon be flooded with insurers...
New Trade Association Gives Voice to Calif. Insurers
Jan 26 2004 // A new California trade association has been formed to represent the needs of the state’s domestic insurers. The Pacific Association of Domestic Insurance Cos. (PADIC) began operations Jan. 1. Formed by several small-...
One-on-One with Arizona State Fund President Don Smith
Jan 26 2004 // In recent months, we’ve heard nothing but praise for Arizona’s workers’ compensation system, especially when compared to the trouble California system. Wondering what all the hoopla was all about, I...
Controlling Medical Costs in Workers’ Compensation
Jan 26 2004 // Rising healthcare costs are recognized as a key problem in the workers’ compensation industry. Medical costs once constituted 30 percent of the total workers’ comp claims expenses; today, however, they...
MDIA Announces Workers’ Compensation Costs Containment
Jan 23 2004 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Medical Diagnostic Associates, A Medical Corporation (MDIA), a leading national provider of Network Diagnostic Services, the expansion of its unique, high-quality Second Opinion program,...
Conference Attendees Told TRIA Needs Careful Examination by Insurers
Jan 23 2004 // Insurers will have to make tough public policy decisions regarding whether the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) should be extended beyond its sunset date of Dec. 31, 2005, attendees at the ExecuSummit Conference in New...
NAMIC Praises Tenn. Call for Workers’ Comp Reforms
Jan 23 2004 // Gov. Phil Bredesen’s call to action to reform the Tennessee workers’ compensation system this year is welcomed news, a representative of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies said Thursday. In...
Texas Ranks High in Workers’ Comp Costs per Claim
Jan 23 2004 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Texas increased at double-digit rates for the third consecutive year, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. Workers’ compensation...
APCapital Won’t Sell Comp Renewals
Jan 23 2004 // East Lansing, Mich.-based insurer American Physicians Capital Inc. announced that it is continuing with its plan to exit the workers’ compensation business, but has determined that nonrenewing its policies is the...
CWCI Study Examines Evidence-Based Medicine in California Workers’ Comp
Jan 22 2004 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute has issued a new study examining the development and history of evidence-based medicine (EBM) as a tool for assuring appropriate, quality medical care, and its potential...
CWCI Schedules Workers’ Comp Treatment Utilization Guideline Seminars
Jan 22 2004 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute will hold a one-day seminar in March in San Francisco and in Long Beach to educate industry professionals on practical issues surrounding implementation of the new...
Meadowbrook/TPA Distributes $4 Million to Mass. Workers’ Comp Self-Insured Groups
Jan 22 2004 // Meadowbrook/TPA Associates, a third-party administrator of self-insured workers’ compensation programs, announced that it is distributing $4,023,874 in dividends to 520 Massachusetts businesses who are members of the...
Fla. Workers’ Comp Market In Need of Time to Recuperate
Jan 21 2004 // Although the Florida workers’ compensation market is still under stress, and the Florida Workers’ Compensation Joint Underwriting Association (FWCJUA) prepares to post hefty deficits, observers are confident...
WCRI Study Reports Pa. Workers’ Comp Costs Per Claim Continue Upward Trend
Jan 21 2004 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Pennsylvania continue to grow, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The study by the Cambridge, Mass-based WCRI found that costs per...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Costs Per Claim Continue Rapid Growth
Jan 21 2004 // California workers’ compensation costs per claim in California continue to grow rapidly, increasing 15 percent from 2000 through 2001 (as of 2002) and are accelerating, according to a new study from the Cambridge,...
Captives Don’t Belong in Ga. Guaranty Fund
Jan 16 2004 // A Georgia House bill requiring captive insurance companies that write workers’ compensation coverage to be covered under state guaranty fund laws will reportedly do nothing to identify or correct their financial...
Companion P&C to Provide Workers’ Comp in Arkansas
Jan 15 2004 // Companion Property & Casualty Insurance Group announced that the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has awarded the company one of the servicing carrier contracts for the Arkansas Workers’...
Westfield Names New Comp Exec
Jan 15 2004 // Ohio-based regional insurer Westfield Insurance has named Richard A. Gajda executive of special risk/workers’ compensation, the company said in a statement. His responsibilities include managing the overall results...
